Classic route
Bari–Taranto railway
Taranto → Bari · Italy
- Distance
- 103 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 09 min
- Average speed
- 90 km/h
- Top speed
- 150 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- Frecciarossa
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1865
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
104 km across the Murge plateau from Bari through Gioia del Colle to Taranto, now covered end to end by Frecciarossa in a little over an hour.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16640417 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trenitalia — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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